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MR. B. A. BULL in his address as chairman to the British Pharmaceutical Conference meeting in London on July 16, reviewed the various fields of development in pharmaceutical practice which have occurred during the past ten or fifteen years. A good deal of attention has been devoted to methods of analytical control, particularly the extension of physical methods, such as spectroscopic, adsorption, fluorimetric, X-ray and the selenium cell. The technique of microanalysis had been developed so that routine examinations can be carried through with a considerable degree of both speed and accuracy. Adsorption has been applied in the development of chromatography. The range of synthetic chemical compounds having medicinal properties has been widely extended and, in addition to the synthesis of naturally occurring substances such as the vitamins and the development of fermentation, and biological processes, whole series of new compounds possessing marked physiological activity have been prepared. The search for true chemotherapeutic agents has proceeded with increased vigour and with considerable success, notably in the case of penicillin.
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Pharmaceutical Products and their Manufacture. Nature 158, 193–194 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158193d0
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